SmokinwithWilly

It's an entertainment league. The refs can have bias because having tech make obvious calls like ball placement would make steering the story too difficult.

Gonna have to draft Higgins a new hamstring if we got him. Dude always has soft tissue injuries it seems.

In some aspects it might be. Take away classes, life on campus, limited practice time and lesser players and certain parts of the game might be easier. Not to say that they all are by any stretch, but I could see a couple things being easier to deal with than at the college level.

At this point, you have to worry about developing the other guys as well. Can't just worry about is Young gonna be the guy. If he regresses and Dalton is the better option, you go with the Red Rifle.

Probably as crazy as you think. I'd guess it was done for around a million, maybe a little more. I know what I pay for sod and a bulk order like that would definitely get discounted. The removal of the old and prep of the sublayer would be the biggest costs

Probably has to do with the weather and/or health of the turf. Cold weather bluegrass starts shifting towards dormancy so by bringing in from another location that hasn't been affected yet, they could get better turf health and durability.

Here's how you do it. 2020 The Washington FT is poised to win the NFC East with a losing record (would be Rivera's 2nd time as a HC) and won't go far if anywhere in the post season. Poised to play the Panthers, Dwayne Haskins is named starter and proceeds to crap the bed in the 1st half, so much so the announcers are saying if Rivera wants to have a chance at winning, he has to be benched. He's played into the 4th qtr before being benched for Heinicke who almost leads the comeback. So close but not quite. Haskins is cut Monday. The following week the winner of the Philly/wash game wins the division and heads to the playoffs. The game was a comedy of wtf calls by coaches. I remember watching the game thinking neither of them wanted to win. Pederson ends up tanking worse than Rivera and Washington heads to the playoffs for a 1 and done. While not a 8 or 9 game tank-a-thon, that's how you do it, or at least attempt to. Haskins was playing so badly that any coach with serious hopes of making the playoffs was not naming him starter. The team was put in such a bad position that winning was highly unlikely.

If the FO had half a brain and actually watched tape vs a 15 minute play breakdown at the dinner table, the pick would have been Stroud and the 2nd pick would have been Young. The team itself doesn't tank. The FO and the HC cause the team to tank by who they play. You can't ask the players to not play, they're not going to do that. But the HC and FO can put them in a bad position to win by deciding not to play guys with nagging injuries or by playing younger guys who they need to see what they've got, or by calling a mediocre game plan. It's been attempted before. Most recent memory would be Rivera with Wash/Car and Wash/Philly. They ended up winning the 2nd, their division with a losing record only to be bounced out of the playoffs. It cost them about a dozen spots in draft position.

I've already got $500 he throws for under 125.

That and so many top tier WRs have had major injuries.

It's been working pretty damn well.

The fact the Bears have never had a 4k yard passer says a lot about their development of QBs as a franchise. Williams always had potential, but was also the riskiest QB pick. Daniels always made more sense from a QB maturity standpoint. Chicago is where QBs go to watch their career die.

This team has never had back to back winning seasons. We've never experienced sustained success or a winning culture in Carolina.

When Chuba got folded like a pretzel I thought that was the end. Nothing BY had done to that point had given me any confidence that he could pull off a game winning drive on his own.

The 3-4 was Dave's choice. We've never really had the players to run it effectively.

And he also was drafted into a position he didn't have to start right away and could learn under one of the greatest offensive minds in the game. Situation matters as well as talent.

JMO but I think the culture was established during FA last year. That culture was to coddle Bryce and not hurt his feelings by bringing in serious competition after one of the worst seasons in NFL history. He was also handed the starting job without any real competition and proceeded to poo the bed in such an epic fashion he had to be benched. How can anyone seriously believe the culture is all about winning when the biggest issue in the locker room is never even addressed? Even the players were excited about Dalton because he could actually make throws that Bryce can't and Dalton isn't anything to be excited about. You can't be serious about establishing a winning culture when you coddle players and don't actually try to improve at the most important position on the field.

Here's the way I see it. In the 20 games he's played so far, we haven't seen 1 complete performance that you would expect from an NFL quality starting QB. If they want to keep Bryce, fine. But don't stop actively looking for another starter level QB either. Dalton is going to be 100 next year (in NFL years) and we need to replace him. We should be actively looking to improve the QB position.

Who the F is BW?

Chuba impressed me by somehow not breaking or tearing something when he got contorted into a pretzel.

If you want to celebrate a win, feel free. I'm bigger picture at this point. I've seen this team screw itself over and over again with wins that don't really matter and everyone has forgotten by the first snap of camp. And Ive seen enough mediocrity to last a lifetime, and calling the last 6 years mediocrity would be generous. Dalton's career is all but over. But we should never stop looking for our next QB. Even with the GOAT, Billy B still drafted and looked for his next QB just in case. I'm ready for bigger picture football. Once we actually do that, then I'll start celebrating wins against really bad teams. It's just where I'm at as a fan.

We have Dalton and possibly Plummer ATM. Neither are great options. The time to address this was in the off season when we actively chose to not bring in any real competition. Bryce played Josh Rosen level bad last year. 1st pick or not, you can't just hand the starting position to that level of QB play and be taken seriously. After the 1st 2 games he was benched and many were blaming the supporting cast, but then Dalton lit up the Raiders with the same cast. If you're willing to bench him 2 games into the season, you're openly admitting he wasn't ready to be the only option at starter. We have no good options right now and that is a huge failure of the FO. We didn't win today because of BY, we won in spite of him. Chuba carried this team. Bryce did nothing extraordinary. He played a game you would expect to see from any backup QB in the league. If the Giants D wasn't so horrible against the run, do you think BY would have been able to put 300 yards and 3 scores on the board? I don't and that's my problem. When the game is on the line, and we saw it twice today (Coker and Chuba) he couldn't make the pass. That's a basic NFL pass. Daboll didn't respect him enough and punted away with 3 minutes on the clock and had the ball back in under a minute. Maybe I'm wrong and BY becomes great and that would be the best thing for the team and I will happily eat crow. The worst thing is he becomes mediocre and we consider that success and stop trying to get better at the position and we live every year somewhere between 6-8 wins.

Bryce failing is horrible for this team and I don't want him to fail. I want him to succeed because we need him to succeed. But I'm not going to pretend that what he's doing has been anything short of backup level football, and a bad backup at that. Nothing I've seen says we should stop looking for a starting level QB.

Bingo. He was crowned played of the game when Chuba clearly put that offense on his back and carried them down the field over and over again.

There comes a point when you have to look at BY game and ask yourself, based on his performance, if he hadnt been the 1st overall pick, would he be starting in this league, or even a backup ? For me, the answer is simple, no. Bryce's game stats are what most QBs accomplish in a half or less on a regular basis. We can win games, but the ultimate goal should always be to make this team a contender. I'm over the feel good wins. At some point you have to accept reality. To compete in a pass friendly league you have to be able to throw the ball with consistency, accuracy, and strength. We're not doing that and we're not getting a winning season, much less into the playoffs, until we do.